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Kurt Russell to star in football film 'Touchback'

Brian Presley, Melanie Lynskey, Christine Lahti co-star in pic

Kurt Russell is drawing up a game plan to play a football coach in Freedom Films' "Touchback," which Don Handfield is writing and directing.

The cast also includes Brian Presley as a small-town farmer who flashes back to his high-school glory days; Melanie Lynskey, who will play the wife of Presley's character; and Christine Lahti, who will play his mother.